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...peace: to live like the city-state of Athens, culturally, economically, open and expanding, but to be prepared at all times to become a fortress-state, a Sparta, and to fight to the end. The ubiquity of soldiers is understandable in light of the fact that every Israeli male, eighteen years of age (almost without exception) must serve in the armed forces for three years, after which, until he is fifty-four, he will serve up to eight weeks a year in the reserves. There is no military state of mind, as such, as opposed to a civilian one, primarily...
...Crimson stretched it to 67-57 at half-time, and at the start of the second half, went ahead by eighteen...
...Eighteen-year olds will be able to register for the draft between 30 days before and 30 days after their eighteenth birthdays...
...Eighteen months ago the two found their real calling. Convinced that the "visual reality of commercial television" had become "the most important force in the country," they formed a company called Telethon to document that reality off the TV screen. Telethon's first big project is a traveling show called The Television Environment-a thoroughly engaging, nonstop bombardment of slides and live TV that is currently playing at art museums in Vancouver, B.C., Berkeley and Pasadena, Calif., Tallahassee, Fla., and Baltimore...
...football team to "win this one for the Gipper," the Gipper being played by young man Ronald Reagan. Nowhere a hint of Nixon's own private rosebud, although I think the statement by an old friend of the Nixon family to the effect that, as a boy. Nixon worked eighteen hours a day and thus could never come to feel any sympathy for his fellow countrymen who work only eight, comes closest to the truth. A truly hollow man, Nixon is one who is simply driven. His presidency becomes his chance to wreak vegeance on a country that infused...